SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book mounted to archival board with

mounted to archival board with archival tape--and would leave it just as is unless one has a terrific period frame lying around

I have not been able to get this drawing out of my mind

please note it at checkout

the wooden cog wheel moves slats on each side

Very strong color and bold black

SOLD Stunning Hybrid: Twice Watercolored 1790 Shaw & Nodder Copper Engraving of Sea Anemone (#1) handmade story book mounted to archival board withThis feels completely otherworldly to me and I can't stop looking at it. The copperplate engraving is by Fredrick Nodder, from George Shaw's renowned The Naturalist's Miscellany (1789 1813; this plate c. 1790) but it is the hand coloring that makes this one especially special, and singular, here not one but two iterations of applied watercolor. I know from the dealer I purchased this from that the volume it came from featured annotated endpapers